girlishly

comparative more girlishly · superlative most girlishly

1. In a girlish manner.

   "What's worse, I suppose I girlishly trilled all this to him, and too often. […]"

   1951, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 10, in World So Wide

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   Ganymede was once a girlishly handsome precocious youth. That one cannot for any considerable number of years go on being youthful, girlishly handsome, and precocious, seems on consideration to be a statement as worthy of credit as the famous syllogistic conclusion, "Socrates was mortal."

   1879, George Eliot, chapter 12, in Impressions of Theophrastus Such

   Synonyms: girlily, girly